swans

Published 2007-04-30 mediocristan extremistan swans

Nassim Taleb talks about the challenges of coping with uncertainty, predicting events, and understanding history. This wide-ranging conversation looks at invest…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes

Published 2010-05-03 swans fragility nassim

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest thoughts on robustness, fragility, debt,…

City Swans May Tolerate Humans Due to Gene Variant

Published 2016-01-14 tolerate swan variant

More members of an urban swan population that lets humans get near have a particular genetic variant than do a rural swan group that tends to take off when huma…